Recent content by Jonathan Lee

  1. J

    connect a laptop to projector with hdmi and also get sound from surround system

    In response to MrCarlSr: I thought about something like this, too. But in my case, I wanted the HDMI audio out for surround 5.0; since my laptop serving as an HTPC didn't have an optical out, I was stuck with HDMI as the only option.
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    connect a laptop to projector with hdmi and also get sound from surround system

    Here is a belated response to DCA - gasman. This solution won't work, unless I'm misunderstanding. I wanted (like the original poster, I think) to send HDMI out from a computer to a home theater system with a passthrough to my projector. But when I plug in my projector, which has no sound...
  3. J

    connect a laptop to projector with hdmi and also get sound from surround system

    I'm having exactly the same problem with different hardware. As soon as I plug in my projector (an older DVI model), my computer drops the receiver as an attached device, even though I'm successfully passing video through the receiver. I've been searching for two days with no solution in sight. :-(